But, you can also configure Google Docs to automatically substitute two hyphens with an em dash whenever you insert them. Using two consecutive hyphens is the next best alternative on keyboards without a dedicated em dash key. There are other two ways to add em dash in Google docs/ drawings ( source): On Macs, you can use the Shift-Option-Hyphen to insert the em dash.
(2) use SHIFT + arrow key (i.e., Up, Down, Left, or Right) MAC - em dash (1) select the object to make slight movement.
Superscript and Subscript for Mac Subscript (2) hold CTRL and press the period (.) key. I am also an associate member of the teachassist foundation.(1) select the text you want to superscript These days the need for simpler, more effective time-saving tools is an even greater imperative. I built this extension primarily for teachers and students. Hi, my name is Hyoun Park and I'm a high school teacher and developer living just north of Toronto in Canada. In situations where you want ^ or _ or \ or ` to appear in the text just press the key twice.
Click on the SuperSub Extension Icon for the full list of accents and some other international symbols. There are other keys that will also trigger these accents. Here are the keys for some of the most common accents: and then press the key corresponding to the accent that you want. then press the ` key (usually found at the top left corner of QWERTY keyboards),ģ. Placing a space before the overhead vector symbol may be necessary in some cases.Ģ.
I will of course update this list as soon as we get more super and sub glyphs encoded by the Consortium.įor the science and math symbols, I chose those that are, from my experience, the most commonly used in high school science and math and I tried to match the Greek letters to the closest corresponding Latin equivalents whenever I could.įor the overhead vector symbol, the vector symbol needs to be typed first and then the letter for the base. Once installed, click on the SuperSub Extension Icon (top right corner of Chrome) to see the list of characters that have already been encoded and the required key to type. In those cases a message will be displayed on the screen and the original typed character will appear instead. However, there are some super and sub Latin letters that have not yet been encoded by the Consortium, particularly for subscripts. There are super and sub scripts for all numerical digits. This extension applies only to Google Forms and Google Sheets.įor most fonts these Unicode glyphs for super and sub scripts are actually the numerators and denominators for diagonal fractions and so they may not look exactly the same as the equivalent markup. To toggle Subscripts: press ctrl and the, key. To toggle Superscripts: press ctrl and the. Type Superscripts, Subscripts, and Other Scientific and Mathematical Symbols Directly Into Google Forms and Google Sheets No need to copy and paste from other sources!įor Superscript: type ^ before the character you want.įor Subscript: type _ before the character you want.įor Science or Math symbol: type \ then the character you want.įor Accent or other symbols: type ` then the accent or character you want.